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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Albino_Eskimo: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Madame M.: [qb] I'll first say this...now I'm not an unsympathetic person but I'm really tired of the 9/11 tributes already. If any of my family members had died in that I think it would be more depressing to have to listen to the stories AGAIN. It's time to let go to a certain extent. It's time to realize that tragedies happen all the time all over the world and for the most part no one makes a stink about it and they certainly don't dedicate hours upon hours of TV and radio time to it. Americans are not the only ones worthy of sympathy. Americans are not the only human beings that matter in this world. It makes me kinda sick when ppl say..God Bless America..how about God Bless Everyone? So for my two cents about where I was that day. I was getting my oldest son ready for his afternoon kindergarten class. It was picture day that day so I was getting the lad all spiffed up. I believe my mother was the first to call me to tell me to turn on the TV. She also told me to not take my son to school that day. I took him and he had his school picture taken and enjoyed his day in kindergarten like all the other kids. [/qb][/QUOTE]Well take a look at how much time we dedicate to the Rosebowl parade and the Thanksgiving day Macy parade and New Years Eve.... It has given advertisers something that will hold the nation's couch potatoes to the screen long enough to market their products to them. :rolleyes: Americans don't force other countries to celebrate Holidays or remember tragic events like this one. here is where American ignorance of life outside of the USA comes in to play. Take a look at Tibet. Loads of Chinese communist and cultural celebrations are forced down their throats. Taiwan, untill 2000 they had to celebrate British holidays as official holidays despite the UK not celebrating them as official. Aruba, most of the island is black or Indian indentured servents from a century or so ago; yet they still must comply with Dutch law and official holidays. Bahamas, still a British protectorate and still must do the same as Aruba above. West Africa, Countries like Cameroon, Nigeria, the Congo and others expect other nations with weaker governments to celebrate b-days of their leaders, military victories over their own people (celebrating your own tribe's genocide isn't peachy) and then to pay a tax on those days from your governement's coffers. Imagine a parade through your town with the war criminal who tortured your brother, mother, dad or son waltzing through your neighborhood like an Emperor with no clothes. This is only a tiny minuscale fraction of the evil things people of other countries to to people from different countries. And yeah our State Department from time to time when given an invitation to grace these cermonies tell especially these powerful West African nation to gracefully f*ck off, while the European diplomate shows up. Sorry American might demand sympathy on media airwaves but its not like we expect Gaum to officially recognize Thanksgiving or even 9/11 rememberance day. We aren't that evil. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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